Billinge_Lump wrote:True, but they've not done it since. In fact only Fletcher has really become a regular first team starter (O'Shea is pretty much first reserve) since that batch came through. Does that mean the coaching has declined, or that they've just not had the players through that have been good enough? IMO, it's the latter.
No they haven't really done it in such numbers since, but as Andy Gilder points out, they've had no need to and the previous nucleus is still there keeping them out. Perhaps when the now 'old guard' all call it a day, it could happen then. The likes of Gibson, Cleverley, and Evans Jr could be the spearheads of another batch.
Like I said when you look at the figures it proved to be a superb piece of business surely. Just 3 years after Blackburn signed Shearer, Liverpool were paying £8.5million for Collymore, absolutely no way was Collymore more then twice as good as Shearer.
